Veeam has been chosen by Faster for its international business

The global dimension and high design expertise are key issues for the innovative Italian company leader in quick-release hydraulic couplings, who wanted to be equipped better in order to safeguard its operations

Veeam® Software, the innovative provider of solutions that delivers Availability for the Always-On Enterprise™, today announced that Faster, Italian company leader in quick-release hydraulic couplings, chose Veeam as a supplier. With several offices abroad managed through a central server located at the headquarters in Rivolta d’Adda, Faster needed to have an efficient and effective Disaster Recovery plan, so adopted Veeam Availability Suite v9, following the advice of platinum Veeam partner Project Informatica.

With a consolidated revenue of 100 million of Euros, 2,500 active customers and more than 5,000 finished products manufactured at the headquarters in Rivolta d’Adda, in the province of Cremona, and 5 foreign subsidiaries in North America, India, Brazil, China and Germany, Faster counts several international customers of production of agricultural machinery and earth moving solutions, like John Deere, CNH, Caterpillar.

“As the leading company in the field of hydraulic couplings and multi couplings, Faster offers innovative products and applications, characterized by cutting-edge technology solutions,” said Serena Piceni, IT Director, she adds: “In our field investing in technology is essential: we distribute centrally all the IT services from the data center of Faster Italy and all the foreign companies work only if the central data center is active. So we have the criticality of a single point of failure and this is why a crucial need for continuity of service is born so we decided to ensure a disaster recovery and continuity plan in case of any problems. ”

 

With Veeam Availability Suite v9, Faster now it has a fully integrated solution, fast and safe that can replicate workloads in the cloud, allowing the Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) to operate an incredible improvement of the RTO. Thanks to its technology that connects securely and continuously the customer to the service provider, Veeam has eliminated the need to prepare and maintain a disaster recovery site for offsite protection, thereby reducing costs and IT complexity. Faster could appreciate the solution also for:

 

– Ease of implementation of the service, and direct control of the same;

– Ability to use the replication mode diversifying the service based on the criticality of critical machines;

– Flexibility of the disaster recovery management due to the possibility of a partial failover, or a granular assignment of interest on the data center machines with no other architectural interventions.

 

“For now we only recovered data and we did not need to turn on the remote machines, we have not had a real disaster problem. However, we live in the guarantee of having an efficient, secure, essential qualities in a context like ours where you have to ensure the continuity of the business and even one failure billing day could be a problem. “Concludes Piceni.

 

“We have recommended our client that fully appreciate the DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service) with its flexibility in providing failover and failback of all or selectively to both new and existing infrastructure. The power and ease of use, integrated with failover testing, and utility of consumption patterns have an amazing and compelling case for DRaaS in the Cloud “adds Enrico Bassi, System Engineer of Computing Project.

 

“All analysts agree that every business is set to become a software company, where data and applications must always be available,” said Albert Zammar, Vice President of EMEA Southern Region of Veeam. “With pleasure we find in Italy a cutting edge reality like Faster that implemented the future trends of the business and found in our vision and in our solution the answer to their needs”.